Category: Harlemscape
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Harlem East Endorses Inez Dickens
The Harlem East Block Association has run candidate forums, candidate surveys, and member polls, and the results are in! 60+% of the Harlem East Block Association voted to endorse Inez Dickens. The block association members appreciate Inez’s track record of preserving affordable housing & her willingness to address safety & quality of life issues in…
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Landmarking in Harlem
Minton’s Playhouse and an apartment building in Hamilton Heights where jazz pioneers Duke Ellington and Noble Lee Sissle once lived may soon be listed and landmarked. Thelonius Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill outside Minton’s Playhouse in 1947. Photo via WikiCommons Minton’s Playhouse on West 118th Street was the birthplace of bebop, an improvisational style of jazz, came…
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Are You Ready To Vote?
Check your registration here: https://vote.nyc/page/register-vote or register if you’re not yet. Environmental Justice Conference On May 25, Cristina Contreras, CEO of Metropolitan Hospital and District Leader Will Smith will open an exciting Environmental Justice Conference at Metropolitan Hospital Morning Session: 10 am – noon The order of presenters: Lunch Break: Noon until 1 pm [Congressman…
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The Other Harlems
No, not the Haarlem in the Netherlands, the Harlems in Georgia, Montana, Florida, and Illinois. This project doesn’t account for neighborhoods but only takes into consideration counties or towns. Thus our Harlem isn’t in the running. The population numbers of America’s other Harlems is interesting: If you’d like to test drive another location, here’s the…
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Ranked Choice Voting – Get Ready for the Democratic Primary – June 27th
Voters will use ranked choice voting (RCV) once again in the June 27, 2023 primary for most of the candidates shown on their ballots. Many Harlem residents (with party affiliation), will be able to vote for candidates for City Council. Ranked choice is used only for primaries, not general elections; come November, we’ll go back…
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115 to 123
Metro North is going to be completely replacing the elevated tracks between 115th Street and 123rd Street, starting in about 9 months or a year. However, not only are they going to do this massive task, but they’ll do it while the tracks are in use. The engineering behind this is all predicated on closing…
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Color Stock Film of Harlem 1963
A shout-out to Harlem Bespoke who mentioned this Pathe 8 minute film of stock images of New York City in 1963: If you want to focus on the short section on Harlem, scrub over to 5:15 on the YouTube video. Janes Walk – A Great Day In Harlem Join members of Landmark East Harlem (LEH)…
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Harlem’s Worlds Fair, 1883
No, the Harlem World’s Fair did not happen in 1883, nor did it happen at all. But it was proposed in this great illustration from Demarest’s Monthly Magazine, November 1879 (thank you to Harlem Bespoke that originally drew my attention to this image): The fair would essentially be on the Columbia University land, and stretch…
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Black Home Ownership
Earlier in April, Blandon Casenave presented to HNBA at our monthly meeting. Blandon is a native New Yorker and independent political analyst, with over thirty-years of activism in the African-American community, who was born and raised in Brooklyn and now resides in the Bronx. Blandon’s work on the erosion of the Black middle class is…
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Black Star Lines
A great map of Harlem, showing sites both secular and sacred: Molly Roy, the cartographer, and designer, produced the map in Nonstop Metropolis, a culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases. Her work (she has a number of maps in the atlas) reveals the intimate, ephemeral, and complex experiences of New York City. The larger…
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Jobs Not Guns
Last month, Amsterdam News had a great article on how Uptown Grand Central is using $20,000 from the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, to fund clean-up around the Metro-North station and Northern East Harlem as a whole. “As part of our comprehensive gun violence strategy, we are focused on prevention efforts to keep young people engaged…
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HNBA April Meeting Recording
If you missed the fascinating April 11th conversation on Black home ownership in New York City, here’s the recording: Topic: HNBA MeetingDate: Apr 11, 2023 06:51 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) View Detail Share You can copy the recording information below and share with othershttps://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/OJeDxYDKo4Bou8lTaHRomEVfQeNMwKb2hIsPY_ZwBXF14VWElLxnB2e-WscJxqUy.1uG8qEBSlCJIuAlAPasscode: 5P@$yEVm Housing Justice Town Hall, April 30th Barnard College – Undesigning the…
